He made the island his headquarter, built a fort and levied toll from all ships passing up the Gulf of Cambay.

His exactions came to the knowledge of the emperor Muhammad bin Tughluq of Delhi Sultanate who was then quelling a revolt in Gujarat.

In the middle of the eighteenth century (c. 1729), a merchant of Surat named Mulla Muhammad Ali, built a fort on Piram with an intention to establish himself as an independent chief.

Subsequently it fell under the royal family of Bhavnagar State who had built a bastion on south west corner of the island to keep watch on the maritime activities.

Also known is Piramys a side-necked turtle belonging to the family Podocnemididae, a group which no longer occurs in India or Asia and today is only found in South America and Madagascar.